A painting by French Impressionist master Claude Monet that belonged to a Japanese collector but was lost for decades after WWII is now back in Tokyo, a museum official said Tuesday. The oil painting, around two metres long and 4.2 metres wide, was unearthed in the Louvre Museum in
The painting had belonged to Kojiro Matsukata, a businessman who collected Western art
A painting by French Impressionist master Claude Monet that belonged to a Japanese collector but was lost for decades after WWII is now back in Tokyo, a museum official said Tuesday.
The oil painting, around two metres long and 4.2 metres wide, was unearthed in the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2016 but the discovery had not been made public until now.
“The painting was recently returned” to the National Museum of Western Art in the Japanese capital, a spokeswoman told AFP.
The painting — entitled “Water Lilies: Reflections of a Willow Tree” — is dated 1916 and depicts bright flowers floating on a lake.
